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A Happy Birthday to the Clinger-Cohen Act

On this date a decade ago, the Clinger-Cohen Act was signed. The law, of course, mandated the creation of chief information officers at most of the big agencies, but it was also a seminal law for agency information technology.

In FCW's annual Watch List issue, coming out on Jan. 9, we will look at CIOs... and ask the question: Do CIOs matter?

The GAO director of information technology issues is leaving government after 16 years. On his way out the door, Dave Powner details how far govtech has come in the past two decades and flags the most critical issues he sees facing federal IT leaders.